Opportunities for community awareness platforms in personal genomics and bioinformatics education.

Abstract:

:Precision and personalized medicine will be increasingly based on the integration of various type of information, particularly electronic health records and genome sequences. The availability of cheap genome sequencing services and the information interoperability will increase the role of online bioinformatics analysis. Being on the Internet poses constant threats to security and privacy. While we are connected and we share information, websites and internet services collect various types of personal data with or without the user consent. It is likely that genomics will merge with the internet culture of connectivity. This process will increase incidental findings, exposure and vulnerability. Here we discuss the social vulnerability owing to the genome and Internet combined security and privacy weaknesses. This urges more efforts in education and social awareness on how biomedical data are analysed and transferred through the internet and how inferential methods could integrate information from different sources. We propose that digital social platforms, used for raising collective awareness in different fields, could be developed for collaborative and bottom-up efforts in education. In this context, bioinformaticians could play a meaningful role in mitigating the future risk of digital-genomic divide.

journal_name

Brief Bioinform

authors

Bianchi L,Liò P

doi

10.1093/bib/bbw078

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1082-1090

issue

6

eissn

1467-5463

issn

1477-4054

pii

bbw078

journal_volume

18

pub_type

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